Description

In #1569, we created a feature branch in which we built an API interoperability layer and switched our frontend Twig templates to use it. However, it is premature to merge that branch because we haven't yet added error handling or tests for the new layer. This will be a big "all-or-nothing" kind of switch, so we want to get to test parity before making the change. Once the tests and error handling are in place, we'll merge that branch.

Dependencies:

General

• [Interop layer] Implement API backoff and retry #1595
• [Interop layer] Test legacy icon mapping #1608
• [Interop layer] Document and test the interop layer schema #1610
• [Interop layer] Add interop layer tests to CI/CD #1735
• ADR: We will use an interoperability layer between the NWS public API and the website #1732
• [Interop layer] Missing tests #1904

Alerts

• [Interop layer] Test only land alerts are returned #1609
• [Interop layer] Test alert sorting #1596
• [Interop layer] Test alert "finish" time #1597
• [Interop layer] Test alert duration textual description #1598
• [Interop layer] Test highest alert "level" #1599
• parses the alert description into markup
  • [Interop layer] Test alert description parsing into markup #1600
  • [Interop layer] Parse links in alert descriptions #1594
• [Interop layer] Test alert location parsing from description text #1601
• [Interop layer] Test alert geometries #1602

Satellite

• [Interop layer] Test fetching satellite metadata #1611
• [Interop layer] Add satellite MP4 URL to satellite metadata #1835

Forecast

• [Interop layer] Test daily forecast days #1603
• [Interop layer] Test daily forecast alerts #1604
• [Interop layer] Test hourly forecast #1605
• [Interop layer] Add hourly precipitation #1592
• [Interop layer] Update QPF table to correctly handle periods that cross days #1834
• [Interop layer] Add ice and snow to QPF #1873

Observations

• [Interop layer] Test observations #1606
• [Interop layer] Test observation fallback #1607

Error handling and logging

• [Interop layer] Add NewRelic logging #1593
• [Interop layer] Add basic error handling, at parity with current handling #1755

Bugs

• [interop layer] cannot query OCONUS locations #1786

Deployment

• [interop layer] deploy in sandbox #1791
• [Interop layer] Configure deployment to Sandbox and Staging cloud environments #1731

We will implement schema validation #1848 in the near future.